FANTASTIC ANIMAL FACTS
By
Natasha Merchant
Did
you know …. ?
Male
monkeys go bald in the same way that human men do
It
is possible that whales can hear each other a hundred miles apart.
A
crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
Cats’
hearing is even more sensitive than dogs’
The
cheetah can reach a speed of up to 45 miles per hour in 2 seconds
Giant
squids are as long as a double-decker bus and have the biggest eyes of any animal that has ever lived
In
China, the Man in the Moon is a toad.
A
hippo can open its mouth so wide that a four-foot-tall person could walk in
A
kangaroo can jump only if its tail is touching the ground
A
newborn turkey chick has to be taught to eat, or it will starve
At
birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weights about 4 ounces
Bats
always turn left when exiting a cave
The
first living creature to orbit the earth was a Husky dog called Laika, sent into space by Russia in 1957 aboard Sputnik II
“Zorro”
means fox in Spanish
There
are a thousand times more living things in the sea than there are on land.
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